Summer – it’s all about lazy afternoons in the park with a picnic lunch. But you don’t want your picnic to end up costing you more than the necessary. So, we challenged ourselves to create a picnic for four and do it all for under a tenner. So, did we manage it?

First off, we’ve not chosen the cheapest versions of everything. Whilst these can be good for items like rice or potatoes where it doesn’t really matter, when you’re treating your family to a picnic you want to really enjoy it. So, we’ve hit the mid-priced range to make sure you love it!

What was on our list? Well, we chose a fairly traditional collection of goodies, including all those classic picnic favourites, and we’ve based it on what we think will be enough for four people, without going too overboard. After all, you’ll need to save room for the Mr Whippy 99 afterwards!

We bought:

the stuff for ham and cheese sandwiches – everyone likes these, don’t they. Well, if they don’t they should get themselves off to the doc’s for a check-up. And for the veggies, just leave out the ham.

butter – you definitely need butter for your sandwiches, they’re just not the same without out it.

crisps – can’t have butties without crisps, that’d be like having tea and no biscuits!

scotch eggs – don’t know about you, but we love scotch eggs. Cut them in half so everyone can have a piece.

pork pie – another picnic classic and a Dad favourite!

tomatoes, lettuce, cucumber – can’t have salad without these for your sarnies or as a side dish.

sausage rolls – no picnic would be complete without sausage rolls on offer, get ‘em down ya!

salad cream – now, if you don’t like salad cream on pretty much everything in this list, including the crisps, you’re just not normal.

cloudy lemonade – ahh memories of childhood come flooding back – sharp and delicious and just the job for washing down that lovely grub.

So did we manage it?

Of course we did! We got all these classics with enough salad cream left over for lots more, all for just £9.64, that’s just £2.41 each. And, we’re sure you can have a right good guess at who we purchased this fine fayre from. Yes, it’s one of our favourite stores – Aldi. The list of what we bought is below, so you can get it yourself. We’d liked to have checked out Lidl’s prices too, but they’re not currently on My Supermarket.com. So, if you can get this lot cheaper in Lidl, do let us know.

At the other end of the scale, there’s Ocado, which is almost double the price of the Aldi shop, coming in at an eye-watering £17.17 – that’s £4.29 each. That’s a big price difference, imagine how many ice creams you could buy with that. If you want to look at what we bought, you can see the price lists for yourself below.

Here's what we bought - enjoy!

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shopping list

13 items: £9.64

Dairy & EggsGuide price in £

1x

Greenvale British Butter - Salted (250g)

85p

1x

The Cheese Emporium Wensleydale (250g)

£1.39

Drinks

1x

Vive Premium Lemonade (2L)

39p

Fruit & Vegetables

1x

The Salad Box Cucumber

39p

was 69p

1x

The Salad Box British Romaine Lettuce Hearts (2)

59p

was £1.09

1x

The Salad Box Tomatoes (6)

59p

was 65p

Snacks & Sweets

1x

Snackrite Crisps - Ready Salted (6x25g)

75p

was 79p

Tins, Jars & Cooking

1x

Bramwells Salad Cream (520g)

79p

was 89p

Ready Meals

1x

Crestwood Scotch Eggs (2 per pack - 227g)

62p

1x

Crestwood Crispy Bake Pork Pies (4 per pack - 260g)

95p

1x

Crestwood Snack Sausage Rolls (10 per pack - 300g)

85p

Bakery

1x

Village Bakery Medium White Bread (800g)

49p

was 55p

Meat, Fish & Poultry

1x

Alpenmark Bavarian Ham Slices (6 per pack - 120g)

99p

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